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Thursday, August 10, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Books & Arts Doing “the work that men do”
Inside Story
Labor’s Dorothy Tangney made history in 1943 when she became the first woman elected to the Australian Senate. But though she sat in that chamber for twenty-five years, no Labor woman ever joined her. Instead, she watched as the second, third,...
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Monday, July 03, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
'Rage giving' prompted by the end of Roe has dropped off, abortion access groups say
WUSF Public Media
Reproductive health organizations and advocacy groups say one-time emergency grants have ended and individual and foundation giving has dropped off this year. The “ rage giving ” did not last. Abortion access groups who received a windfall of...
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Monday, July 03, 2023
Women leaders call for action to break up ‘old boys club’ in politics
Free Malaysia Today
Women leaders from Bersatu, DAP, and PKR have urged the government to implement affirmative action policies to bring more women into political positions. Wanita Bersatu secretary Nolee Ashilin Radzi said it was time Putrajaya enacted a law to...
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Two new women MPs have been elected in Papua New Guinea, and 10 others were in the top five in the seats they contested. Image: Lesley Clark/DevPolicy
Friday, August 26, 2022
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Women – just two – back in PNG’s Parliament but more needs doing
Asia Pacific Report
The results of the 2022 Papua New Guinea elections confirm that women will once again sit in PNG’s Parliament — after a hiatus of five years. The 2022 elections were therefore not exactly a repeat of the 2017 elections for women candidates, but much...
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Students graduating from Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Nigeria. Credit: Rajmund Dabrowski/ANN.
Wednesday, July 06, 2022
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
“We copy it from them”: How campus politics sets scene for big man politics in Nigeria
African Arguments
Nigeria has one of the lowest rates of female political representation in the world. This culture is established and reinforced early. One morning before heading to university, Esther Binkap, 21, looked at herself in the mirror and asked herself if...
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INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu. Photo/TWITTER/INECNIGERIA - The Guardian
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
In Nigeria, INEC, CSO collaborate to increase women, youths participation in politics
The Guardian
The Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) says it is collaborating with the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre(PLAC), a Civil Society Organisation(CSO) towards increasing women and youths participation in politics. Prof. Sam Egwu, the INEC...
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Equal Representation? The Debate Over Gender Quotas (Picture Harvard International Review)
Monday, December 20, 2021
Academic Paper / Article
Equal Representation? The Debate Over Gender Quotas (Part 1)
Harvard International Review
This article is the first in a two-part series examining the impact of gender quotas. The second article discusses the impact of quotas in Sweden and India. Gender quotas exist in a shockingly high number of countries. More than 130 nations have...
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IPU’s I Say Yes to Youth in Parliament! campaign goes global - Copyright: IPU
Friday, December 17, 2021
IPU’s I Say Yes to Youth in Parliament! campaign goes global
IPU
Just over ten years ago, IPU Member Parliaments adopted a landmark resolution on youth participation to encourage the rejuvenation of parliaments. Since then, parliaments from around the world have made some limited progress in its implementation....
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Culture Minister Haifa Najjar speaks during the launch of a field study implemented by the Arab Women Parliamentarians Network for Equality on Sunday (Petra photo/Jordan Times)
Wednesday, December 01, 2021
Jordan has ‘crystal-clear’ decision to support women’s political participation
The Jordan Times
Jordan has a “crystal-clear” political decision to support women’s participation in political life, notably their representation in Parliament, Culture Minister Haifa Najjar said on Sunday. During the launch of a field study implemented by the Arab...
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Tuesday, July 20, 2021
iKNOW Politics Newsletter July 2021
We are pleased to share with you the latest edition of the iKNOW Politics Newsletter! The newsletter is available in Arabic, English and French. Have a good read! 
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Wednesday, June 02, 2021
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
The incredible rise of Samoa's first female Prime Minister-elect, and the man still standing in her way
CNN
(CNN)- Samoa's first female Prime Minister-elect has had a strange inaugural week in office. When Fiame Naomi Mata'afa turned up to the Pacific island nation's Parliament on Monday to be sworn in, she found the building locked. The 64-year-old went...
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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Scotland's first female Muslim MSP Kaukab Stewart PA
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Scottish election 2021: Record number of women elected
BBC
A record number of women have been elected to the Scottish Parliament, with 58 female MSPs winning seats in the Holyrood election. Women now represent 45% of Scotland's 129 MSPs. The SNP's Kaukab Stewart of the SNP and Conservative Pam Gosal also...
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Three women city on Calgary city council ahead of the 2021 municipal election: (L to R) Jyoti Gondek, Druh Farrell and Diane Colley-Urquhart. Supplied by the City of Calgary
Friday, May 07, 2021
Women underrepresented on Calgary city council; 18 seek council and mayor seats in 2021
Global News
Calgary city council has a representation problem. Of the 15 people on council, including 14 councillors and one mayor, five are BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of colour) and three are women. Calgary’s demographics from the most recent federal...
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Al Jazeera
Thursday, April 22, 2021
Multimedia
Amina Mohammed: 'A woman as president of Nigeria would be great' | Talk to Al Jazeera
Amina Mohammed has risen from humble beginnings in Nigeria to become the most powerful woman in the United Nations. For more than 30 years, she has worked hard to shine a light on the developmental challenges facing our world – particularly women....
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Kim Janey and Tishaura Jones, The Boston Globe via Getty Images and AP
Thursday, April 22, 2021
USA: The number of Black women mayors leading major cities to reach historic high
CNN
(CNN) - A new wave of Black women are breaking barriers as they ascend to mayoral seats in cities with deeply rooted histories of racism and inequality. On Tuesday, Tishaura Jones will be sworn in as the first Black female mayor of St. Louis after...
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Monday, April 19, 2021
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Covid has eroded the gender progress of the last 25 years – bodily autonomy is still a human right
The Independent
The pandemic has had a disproportionate effect on women and girls' access to sexual and reproductive health services, writes Asa Regner, Tabata Tesser and Luna A quarter of a century ago, a historic moment for the rights of women and girls took...
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Sunday, December 20, 2020
iKNOW Politics Newsletter December 2020
We are pleased to share with you the latest edition of the iKNOW Politics Newsletter! The newsletter is available in Arabic, English, French and Spanish.  Have a good read! 
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Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Despite more women leaders, society thinks men are more suitable in leadership roles, study finds
CBS News
A new study conducted by Women Political Leaders and Kantar, the creators of The Reykjavik Index for Leadership, shows inequality persists in how society views leadership. The study found that despite global movements calling for greater equality,...
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